#than

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#ago #assigned #assumed #civilization #higher

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#committing #defeated #high #principle #run

I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#believe #contains #copy #historical #i

Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#anything #being #born #care #charlotte

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#ass #does #face #i #i am

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#adventure #always #good #guarantee #hand

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#answer #assertions #commission #contradictions #experience

San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be. ↗

— Les Claypool

#been #com #culturally #different #diverse

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#drink #drove #had #her #i

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another. ↗

— John Clayton

#appreciation #being #blessed #buying #christian